General Motors – The Government's Warped Definition of 'Success'

In the Bizarro-world that is Washington, D.C. – and the federal government in possession thereof – the word “success” does not mean what it does here on Planet Earth.

It in fact often means exactly the opposite.

Let us take Social Security as but one example. Social Security is the world’s largest pyramid scheme – ever. A scam exponentially bigger than the biggest dreams of Bernie Madoff, Carlo Ponzi or any other confidence man ever to attempt a grift.

Social Security is on the verge of being trillions of dollars in debt. There is an alleged “Trust Fund” – but the program was shifted off the government’s books by President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his fellow Democrats.

So as to allow the excess coin then being collected to be spent as general revenue – in large part so as to pour it into the then newly-minted Medicare and Medicaid.

A move President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats emulated with their 2010 heist of $500 billion from the also-on-the-verge-of-bankruptcy Medicare “Trust Fund” – so as to pour it into the newly-minted ObamaCare.

Quintessential, serial examples of the feds repeatedly rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Thusly did the Social Security and Medicare “Trust Funds” become just another couple of government Slush Funds. Into which the feds have for decades been putting IOUs – from the government to the government.

Which I would think make them IOIs.

Now that the Baby Boomers are hurtling en masse into Social Security and Medicare eligibility, those “Trust Fund” IOIs are coming due. And as we all know, the federal government doesn’t have any coin – at all.

Thusly do the pyramids come tumbling down.

But you’d never know any of this from the way the D.C. denizens – and those of Huge Government mindset – describe these schemes. Google “Social Security success” and you get myriad utterly delusional results, such as:

How else to explain the continued expanded production of the expensive, unprofitable (yet heavily subsidized) and unpopular Chevy Volt?

How else to explain Administration-appointee Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dan Akerson calling for a $1-per-gallon gasoline tax hike? Which would demonstrably hurt his supposed industry – but is proffered in the perverse hope of forcing people into the Volts they thus far have avoided like the Bubonic Plague?